Incentive Structure for County Economic Development and Its Costs : A New Perspective on the Reform of″E xpanding the Powers of County Government″of Zhejiang Province
县域经济发展的激励结构及其代价————透视浙江县政扩权的新视角

Over the past 30 years,the Zhejiang Provincial Government has made reforms to expand the powers of the county government,by increasing the number of sub-provincial governments through a financial system of province directly-administrated counties,implementing growth-oriented fiscal policies,enlarging the economic power of rich counties,and reforming personnel management system. The reform measures have built an incentive structure for sub-provincial governments. There is a mutual coupling effect between the...